Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > RFC793, where is lists the unused flag bits as "reserved". > That is pretty clear to me. It just has to say that > they are reserved, and that is what it does. Actually I read somehwre "must be 0", but I am afraid dont know where anymore. anyway, it do

2.4.0 uptime

BP6/Dual Cel 400 (the 2.0 load is setiathome) -- [root@zekeserv /root]# uptime  8:28am  up 20 days, 13:04,  2 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00[root@zekeserv /root]# uname -aLinux zekeserv 2.4.0 #2 SMP Fri Jan 5 07:37:01 CET 2001 i686 unknown[root@zekeserv /root]#--

Possible Bug: drivers/sound/maestro.c

Hello, I've been using this driver and this hardware since I started running Kernel 2.2.16. It _works_, however, whenever I have a program that I compile that's especially large (the kernel, glibc, etc.), or copy/move lots of files around, the driver starts to fuzz lots of the sound going to th

[PATCH](s): Use spinlocks instead of STI/CLI in SoundBlaster

Hi, I hear on the grapevine that 2.4 kernel modules should use spinlocks in preference to cli() and sti(). Well I'm not sure how big a win it is, particularly on a UP machine, but here's a patch for the SoundBlaster. I've added a spinlock_t to the "struct b_devc" so that multiple SoundBlasters ea

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Adelphia Communications just blew off my problem complaint (they have a > router between me and the POP server that DENY's ECN), telling me that > they "..won't upgrade the router on the basis of one c

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw a post dated last fall 2000 sometime about the > loop device hanging when copying large amounts of data > to a file mounted as, say, ext2fs. I've recently reported a similar problem and told by Jens Axboe at SUSE t

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

> Do you have it at a URL? The patch is small so I have attached it to this email. It should apply to the samba CVS tree. Remember this is still a hack and I need to add code to ensure the file is not truncated and we sendfile() less than we promised. (After talking to tridge and davem, this sh

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Ion Badulescu writes: > > I'm just wondering, if a card supports sg but *not* TX csum, is it worth > > it to make use of sg? eepro100 falls into this category.. > > No, not worth it for now. In fact I'm going to mark that combination > (sg without

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:10:21 +, David S. Miller wrote: > It says "reserved for future use, must be zero". While I've not checked the context yet, this seems to be terrible wording. The context doesn't direct this towards hosts constructing packets? What is the 'It' you refer to, the TCP RFC?

Re: Bug in ppp_async.c

Paul Mackerras writes: > Albert D. Cahalan writes: >> Even Red Hat 7 only has the 2.3.11 version. >> >> The 2.4.xx series is supposed to be stable. If there is >> any way you could add a compatibility hack, please do so. > > Stable != backwards compatible to the year dot. I know. It means that y

mapping physical memory

Hi, I need to be able to obtain and pin approximately 8 MB of contiguous physical memory in user space. How would I go about doing that under Linux if it is at all possible? Thanks ttyl Dima -- Dima Brodsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

Hello, I saw a post dated last fall 2000 sometime about the loop device hanging when copying large amounts of data to a file mounted as, say, ext2fs. It was in regard to kernel 2.4.0test-something. I have the latest 2.4.0 kernel loaded on my system and this bug appears to be there, although I ha

Re: ECN and other sites

"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: > I've kinda been watching the ECN discussion there, and I have 2.4.0 and > noticed that after I'd installed it, I couldn't get to my favorite search > engine (Dogpile.com). I'd assume they don't support it either, because > when I "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

ECN and other sites

I've kinda been watching the ECN discussion there, and I have 2.4.0 and noticed that after I'd installed it, I couldn't get to my favorite search engine (Dogpile.com). I'd assume they don't support it either, because when I "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn" then it goes away. I notified the

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

> "David" == David S Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> It says "reserved for future use, must be zero". Poor choice of wording. If I was implementing this, I would assume that any packet with a non-zero value is illegal by this RFC, and act accordingly. I would assume that this

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > "test"? I know exactly whats going to happen, and unless folks like > hotmail.com and others get their act together I'll certainly end up > removing *@*hotmail.com from the lists by the end of that day. > > That is the whole point of this experiment

RE: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Leif Sawyer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Here's an idea: streams/etc are reached by appending > > "/.../xxx" or some such to paths, thus: > > for streamname on /dir/file, we have "/dir/file/.../streamname" > > for a directory /dir/dir, we get

Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

Peter Horton wrote: > I'm experiencing repeatable corruption whilst writing large volumes of > data to disk. Kernel version is 2.4.1-pre8, on an 850MHz AMD Athlon on an > ASUS A7V (VIA KT133 chipset) motherboard 128M RAM (tested with 'memtest86' > for 10 hours). > > First, I realised that the f

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > > RFC793, where is lists the unused flag bits as "reserved". > > > That is pretty clear to me. It just has to say that > > > they are reserved, and that is what it does. > > > > > > > Is the d

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

"David S. Miller" wrote: > > It says "reserved for future use, must be zero". > > I think the descrepency (and thus what the firewalls are doing) comes > from the ambiguous "must be zero". I cannot fathom the RFC authors > meaning this to be anything other than "must be set to zero by current >

2.4 extreme slowdown and crash

Hi, I've been testing 2.4 on one of my webservers and it seems to exhibit an extreme case of slowdowns every 2-3 days. It slows down to the point where I can't really type anything into the telnet screen (remotely admin'd). However, when I was able to get a few commands to the system (w, memstat

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

H. Peter Anvin writes: > > RFC793, where is lists the unused flag bits as "reserved". > > That is pretty clear to me. It just has to say that > > they are reserved, and that is what it does. > > > > Is the definition of "reserved" defined anywhere? In a lot of specs, > "reserved" means

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

"David S. Miller" wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > Last I communicated with them, I looked for a reference like that in the > > standards RFCs so I could quote chapter and verse at the Hotmail people, > > but I couldn't find it. > > RFC793, where is lists the unused flag bits as "reserve

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

H. Peter Anvin writes: > Last I communicated with them, I looked for a reference like that in the > standards RFCs so I could quote chapter and verse at the Hotmail people, > but I couldn't find it. RFC793, where is lists the unused flag bits as "reserved". That is pretty clear to me. It just

SERVERWORKS (READ ME) please....

LMKL, I have a meeting in the morning with their CTO. I want a core dump of every issue that needs to be address in Linux to put in his hand. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Secondly, the RFCs are pretty clear that the bits in question used for > ECN are _reserved_ and to be ignored by implementations. That means > to not be interpreted, and more importantly not used to discard > packets. > Last I communicated with them, I looked for a

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

H. Peter Anvin writes: > I do think they have a point, though; ECN is listed as an > experimental standard at IETF, and I do think that it's not exactly > fair to *require* everyone to use it until it is standards-track. > It would be another thing if Linux could turn it off on a > per-conne

Re: 2.2.19pre6/7: why can't I dump core?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I've done a quick inspection of pre7 patch set and noticed about the > same thing. Is this an oversight, did someone intentionally turn off > core dumping until some other widget is incorporated into the patches, > or none of the above (a conspiracy, ma

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello! > > > no problems. I simply mounted an NFS server with rsize=wsize=8192 > > and read a few files - I assume this is sufficient? > > This is orthogonal. > > Only TCP uses this and you need not to do something special > to test it. Any TCP connection going th

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Hi, At 01:06 AM 25/01/2001 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >Juri Haberland writes: > > Forget it. I mailed them and this is the answer: > > > > "As ECN is not a widely used internet standard, and as Cisco does not > > have a stable OS for their routers that accepts ECN, anyone attempting > > t

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:04:23PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > CaT writes: > > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > 1 > > > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. > ... > > where should I go to on hotmail to see it fail? > > Try telnetting to port 25 on one of their > "*.ho

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

CaT writes: > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > 1 > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. ... > where should I go to on hotmail to see it fail? Try telnetting to port 25 on one of their "*.hotmail.com" MX records. For example: ? host -a hostmail.com ... hostmail.com651 IN

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:59:01AM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +1100, CaT wrote: > > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > 1 > > > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. I also can ftp to your site > > non-passively. where should I go to on hotmail to

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +1100, CaT wrote: > I'm not sure as to what the problem with hotmail may be. I have ECN > turned on: > > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > 1 > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. I also can ftp to your site > non-passively. where should I go to on

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:37:37PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > James H. Cloos Jr. writes: > > Are there any well know sites using ECN we can test against? > > Use non-passive FTP to my workstation and just do a directory listing > which will make the FTP server create a TCP connection bac

Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

Hi, On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:19:27PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Oops, sorry guys. Thanks to DaveM for correcting me -- my patch has > nothing to do with the "card reports no resources" problem. My > apologies. No problems. However, there is a real problem with eepro100 when the system resu

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

James H. Cloos Jr. writes: > Are there any well know sites using ECN we can test against? Use non-passive FTP to my workstation and just do a directory listing which will make the FTP server create a TCP connection back to your machine for the transfer of the directory listing. My workstation

Re: x86 PAT errata

H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > >> Before people get too exited about the x86 Page Attribute Table ... >> Does Linux use mode B (CR4.PSE=1) or mode C (CR4.PAE=1) paging? >> If so, k

2.2.18 + VM-global + reiserfs + ext3 0.0.5e safe?

Hi, Short story: it's again the reiserfs + ext3 issue. I managed to get ext3 and reiserfs into the same tree. Is that safe to use without further patching? Long story: I have a heavily patched kernel (mostly drivers like I²C, dc390 and stuff), among the patches are VM-global-7 by Andrea Arcang

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

LOL, I'm in Sunnyvale, CA right now. I work for Ensim.Com. OK, here is all the technical info on my box. Sorry it took so long to respond. Had a department meeting to attend. MSI 694D Pro running Dual FC-PGA PIII-733 CPUs with 1GB of Corsair RAM. HDD is a Western Digital WDC300BB-00AU1 ATA1

Re: pcmcia delay causes bootp not to work

Hi David, > Er... no, don't try that patch. It'll oops. Try this instead. > > --- drivers/pcmcia/yenta.c2000/12/05 13:30:42 1.1.2.23 > +++ drivers/pcmcia/yenta.c2001/01/25 23:10:35 > @@ -859,7 +859,8 @@ > socket->tq_task.data = socket; > > MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; > - sch

Re: limit on number of kmapped pages

"Stephen C. Tweedie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:35:12AM +, David Wragg wrote: > > > > > And why do the pages need to be kmapped? > > > > They only need to be kmapped while data is being copied into them. > > But you only need to kmap one page at a time during

2.2.19pre6/7: why can't I dump core?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Folks: Maybe I'm missing something, but nothing seems to be able to dump core on my 2.2.19pre6 box. It looks like a lot of things look for 'current-> dumpable == 1' (actually, != 1) but I don't see the dum

A NFS/LFS patch for kernel 2.4.0

Here is a patch for kernel 2.4.0. Without it, kernel 2.4.0 won't pass the Connectathon Testsuite. -- H.J. Lu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- --- linux/fs/lockd/clntproc.c.lfs Sun Dec 3 18:01:01 2000 +++ linux/fs/lockd/clntproc.c Thu Jan 25 14:58:42 2001 @@ -142,7 +142,8 @@ nlmclnt_proc(struct i

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

> o If sock_writepage is called on path via device without SG support, > the cooked up sock_sendmsg() call needs to switch to KERNEL_DS. > Discovered and fixed by Ingo Molnar. Good catch. > This does show that not too many people are testing this all that > thoroughly :-) Basically, any sy

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Just curious if others have noticed that hotmail is unable to deal with > ECN and wondering if this is a standard that should be encouraged, as in > should I tell hotmail that perha

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

> "alex" == alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: alex> I think the point of a test address is that this could alex> conceivably affect more providers than just Hotmail, and it alex> would be useful for people to be able to check to make sure alex> their own provider isn't also ECN brain damaged

Re: inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ?

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > We also maintain the > > per-page buffer lists as caches of the virtual-to-physical mapping to > > avoid redundant bmap()ping. > > Could you clarify that one, please? Daniel, With "physical mapping" Stephen means

[PATCH] 2.4.0-ac11: small NTFS fixes

Alan, Please apply attached ntfs patch for next 2.4.0-ac kernel release. It fixes a long standing bug where values of lengths of runs were considered unsigned when they are in fact signed numbers (both read and write). Also it makes a correction to how negative mft_recordsizes are handled. Tha

2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

I'm experiencing repeatable corruption whilst writing large volumes of data to disk. Kernel version is 2.4.1-pre8, on an 850MHz AMD Athlon on an ASUS A7V (VIA KT133 chipset) motherboard 128M RAM (tested with 'memtest86' for 10 hours). First, I realised that the fsck was noticing small corruptions

RE: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Here's an idea: streams/etc are reached by appending > "/.../xxx" or some such to paths, thus: > for streamname on /dir/file, we have "/dir/file/.../streamname" > for a directory /dir/dir, we get /dir/dir/.../streamname" >-- "..." is a speci

Re: pcmcia delay causes bootp not to work

Er... no, don't try that patch. It'll oops. Try this instead. --- drivers/pcmcia/yenta.c 2000/12/05 13:30:42 1.1.2.23 +++ drivers/pcmcia/yenta.c 2001/01/25 23:10:35 @@ -859,7 +859,8 @@ socket->tq_task.data = socket; MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; - schedule_task(&socket

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > > > > It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to pick a different port for > > > these things. I know a lot of people who want to use port 80h for > > > debugging data, especially in

Re: pcmcia delay causes bootp not to work

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Ookhoi wrote: > And unfortunately, the guy who mailed me didn't respond at my cry > for help, so now I try the list again. :-) Sorry, try this patch. Index: drivers/pcmcia/yenta.c === RCS file: /inst/cvs/linux/

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > > It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to pick a different port for > > these things. I know a lot of people who want to use port 80h for > > debugging data, especially in embedded x86 systems. > > > > Find a safe

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:07:11PM -0700, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > For some reason totally beyond my comprehension // inside a file name is > > taken to be the same as /, but if it wasn't it could be the stream > > separator. *sigh* > It seems that you mix up forw

Re: inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ?

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:17:30PM +0530, V Ganesh wrote: > > > so i_dirty_buffers contains buffer_heads of pages coming from write() as > > well as metadata buffers from mark_buffer_dirty_inode(). a dirty MAP_SHARED > > page which has b

pcmcia delay causes bootp not to work

Hi, A few days ago I mailed that I can't get nfsroot to work because bootp tries to do its job before the cardbus card gets initialized. I got a message from somebody who said that the pcmcia devices are a bit delayed at boottime, which is also mentioned in the source. Unfortunately I'm too stupi

Re: Subtle MM bug

Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > (This is why I worked so hard at getting the PageDirty semantics right in > > > the last two months or so - and why I released 2.4.0 when I did. Getting > > > PageDirty right was the big step to mak

Re: VM subsystem bug in 2.4.0 ?

Christoph Rohland wrote: > As of 2.4.1-pre we pin the pages by increasing the page count for > locked segments. No special list needed. Sure no special list is needed. But without a special list to park those pages on they will just circulate on the active/inactive lists, wasting CPU cycles and

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

Matthew Dharm wrote: > > Isn't that always the way in the Open Source world? :) > > Seriously, tho... does anyone have some list of who is using what ports? > At least, in general? > There is one included in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. No list you're going to find is going to be complete, th

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

Isn't that always the way in the Open Source world? :) Seriously, tho... does anyone have some list of who is using what ports? At least, in general? Matt On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:32:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > > It occurs to me that it might be a good idea

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

Matthew Dharm wrote: > > It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to pick a different port for > these things. I know a lot of people who want to use port 80h for > debugging data, especially in embedded x86 systems. > Find a safe port, make sure it is tested the hell out of, and we'll con

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to pick a different port for these things. I know a lot of people who want to use port 80h for debugging data, especially in embedded x86 systems. Matt On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:26:36PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x86 PAT errata

Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Before people get too exited about the x86 Page Attribute Table ... > Does Linux use mode B (CR4.PSE=1) or mode C (CR4.PAE=1) paging? > If so, known P6 errata must be taken into

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Ian S. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I'm curious. Why does Linux make that friendly 98/9a/88 looking > postcode pattern when it's running? DOS and DOS95 don't do that. > > I'm begining to feel like I can tell the

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

Where the flip are you form this power starved portion of the world? Also the subject is AMD and VIA chipsets not AMD CPU's running on VIA chipsets. What chipset or host is causing you the problem? VIA pr Promise? On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > > OK, I see you guys releas

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:54:36PM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > > OK, I see you guys releasing patches for the AMD + VIA problem, but this > problem is NOT just limited to the AMD problem. I'm using Intel PIII-733s > and the VIA VT82C686A chipset. No AMD CPUs in ANY of my VIA boxes. When

Re: [preview] Latest AMD & VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

OK, I see you guys releasing patches for the AMD + VIA problem, but this problem is NOT just limited to the AMD problem. I'm using Intel PIII-733s and the VIA VT82C686A chipset. No AMD CPUs in ANY of my VIA boxes. When are we going to see something for the MSI boards? My board in particular is

Re: "no such 386 instruction" with gcc 2.95.2

"David L. Nicol" wrote: > > I think I must need to upgrade my assembler, but: > 2.4.0/Documentation/Changes does not list an assembler version. The gas assembler is part of binutils. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

[PATCH] eliminate #ifdef in parport_pc.c by adding empty entry in pci.h (241p10)

Hi. The following two patches removes an #ifdef CONFIG_PCI in drivers/parport/parport_pc.c by adding a nop definition of pci_match_device to include/linux/pci.h. It incidentially also removes a compiler warning when CONFIG_PCI is not set. Applies against ac11 and 241p10 (the latter with a bit o

"no such 386 instruction" with gcc 2.95.2

I think I must need to upgrade my assembler, but: 2.4.0/Documentation/Changes does not list an assembler version. make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.0/drivers/md' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.0/include -Wall -Wstrict-proto types -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-s

Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

I'm curious. Why does Linux make that friendly 98/9a/88 looking postcode pattern when it's running? DOS and DOS95 don't do that. I'm begining to feel like I can tell the system health by observing it, kind of like "seeing the matrix." Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

Steve Whitehouse writes: > Do you mean that devices will not be able to indicate support of SG seperately > from hw checksum or that the IP zerocopy will simply ignore devices which > do not have both ? IP will ignore devices which do not have both. > DECnet assumes that the mac level check

Re: In kernel 2.4.0 in alloc_uhci when doing request_irq()

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Thunder from the hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using an usual VIA MPV3 onboard USB device (on a AMD K6-II 400 > machine), and it has ever worked fine on Linux (until including > 2.4.0-test10). Now I wanted to use the "retail" 2.4.0-kernel, and USB > gets stuck while

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

Hi, Do you mean that devices will not be able to indicate support of SG seperately from hw checksum or that the IP zerocopy will simply ignore devices which do not have both ? DECnet assumes that the mac level checksum will detect all errors and does not have a checksum of its own on data, so it

RE: 2.4.1-pre10 slowdown at boot.

I think it is too. For now, remove ACPI support. -- Andy (ACPI maintainer) > -Original Message- > From: Terje Rosten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:23 PM > To: Ondrej Sury > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 2.4.1-pre10 slowdown at boot. > Importance:

In kernel 2.4.0 in alloc_uhci when doing request_irq()

Hi, I am using an usual VIA MPV3 onboard USB device (on a AMD K6-II 400 machine), and it has ever worked fine on Linux (until including 2.4.0-test10). Now I wanted to use the "retail" 2.4.0-kernel, and USB gets stuck while booting. Last messages are: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: r

Re: [PATCH] Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Micah Gorrell wrote: > > Because of the problems we where having we are no longer using the machine > > with 3 nics. We are now using a machine with just one and it is going live > > next week. We do need kernel 2.4 because of the process limits in 2.2. > > Does the 'Enab

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

Ion Badulescu writes: > I'm just wondering, if a card supports sg but *not* TX csum, is it worth > it to make use of sg? eepro100 falls into this category.. No, not worth it for now. In fact I'm going to mark that combination (sg without csum) as illegal in the final zerocopy patch I end up s

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

Hello, On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:02:32PM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote: > > Hey, the world is not only Linux. Sometimes the people build > > clusters using different hardware and software. If your solution works > > for your setup we ca

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Ion Badulescu writes: > > Well, yes and no. It's not quite orthogonal, because normally TCP > > will never transmit fragmented packets, and it's precisely fragmented > > packets that make the interesting case with a card that supports > > hardwa

Re:sigcontext on Linux-ppc in user space, another hack.

It appears you can just use the siginfo_t * as the struct sigcontext * !! ie void *signal_handler(int signo, siginfo_t *siginfoptr, struct sigcontext *scp) { scp = (struct sigcontext_struct *)siginfoptr; /* the rest of your code, here */ } John Kacur/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA [EMAIL PROTE

Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Micah Gorrell wrote: I do have such a problem with the machines that have only one eepro100 nic. > Because of the problems we where having we are no longer using the > machine > with 3 nics. We are now using a machine with just one and it is going > live > next week. We do

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Unfortunately, unix allows everything but "/" in filenames. This was > > probably a mistake, as it makes it nearly impossible to augment the > > namespace, but it is the reality. > > For some reason totally beyond my comprehension // inside

[PATCH] Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

Micah Gorrell wrote: > Because of the problems we where having we are no longer using the machine > with 3 nics. We are now using a machine with just one and it is going live > next week. We do need kernel 2.4 because of the process limits in 2.2. > Does the 'Enable Power Management (EXPERIMENTA

Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

Because of the problems we where having we are no longer using the machine with 3 nics. We are now using a machine with just one and it is going live next week. We do need kernel 2.4 because of the process limits in 2.2. Does the 'Enable Power Management (EXPERIMENTAL)' option fix the no resourc

Re: non-random IP IDs

Alexandre Hautequest writes: > I was playing a bit on some of my machines with Nessus (www.nessus.org), and it > told me the following text: > Nessus is saying something bogus to you. > Is there some option to dinamically enable this random IP ID's, or I need to > change something and re

Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

> I have doing some testing with kernel 2.4 and I have had constant problems > with the eepro100 driver. Under 2.2 it works perfectly but under 2.4 I am > unable to use more than one card in a server and when I do use one card I > get errors stating that eth0 reports no recources. Has anyone el

Oops with bonding (2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac11)

The kernel oops when the bond0 device is shut down (for example at reboot). Linux 2.4.0 and 2.4.0-ac11, gcc 2.9.5-2. Pentium II SMP, supplied tulip driver for tulip cards with 21140 or 21143 chips This doesn't happen with 2.2.18 Daniel Pfenniger - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

Ion Badulescu writes: > Well, yes and no. It's not quite orthogonal, because normally TCP > will never transmit fragmented packets, and it's precisely fragmented > packets that make the interesting case with a card that supports > hardware TCP/UDP checksums. No it is not the interesting case

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Michael Rothwell wrote: > Unfortunately, unix allows everything but "/" in filenames. This was > probably a mistake, as it makes it nearly impossible to augment the > namespace, but it is the reality. For some reason totally beyond my comprehension // inside a file name is taken to be the same as

Re: Patches

Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Kmail works fine. Hmmm. Would be great, but could you get working beyond some proxy? I couldn't, and so I have to use Netscape, since pine doesn't really support proxies, too. Same with MS Outlook, which is - o horror - also avariable for Linux (in one package with MS I

Re: make mrproper

Ville Herva wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:00:26AM -0500, you [James Lewis Nance] claimed: > > > > ( mrproper == Mr. Proper ) > > > > I saw a post from Linus once about this. It is Finnish for "Mr. Clean". > > Just to be sure: 'proper' does not mean anything in Finnish (nor Swedish > for

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

Hello! > Starfire card does, maybe the 3com is different. :-) 3com _is_ different. 8) I is not an issue, we do not make zerocopy on IP fragments. > Are we even bothering with the partial checksums at this point, or > are we falling back to CPU checksumming if the packet is fragmented? Of cou

Re: fat32 corruption with 2.4.0

Heikki Lindholm wrote: > > Hello, > I haven't seen much vfat/fat32 complaints lately, so: > 2.4.0 destroyed my windows partition. There seemed to be some trouble in > 2.4.0-test9, too. I don't know if this was a known problem or not, but > 2.4.0-test9 wrote filenames in a wrong way. It could be o

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:29:14 +0300 (MSK), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > >> no problems. I simply mounted an NFS server with rsize=wsize=8192 >> and read a few files - I assume this is sufficient? > > This is orthogonal. > > Only TCP uses this and you need not to do something special > to

Re: vfat <-> vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:56:35AM -0700, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > > > On/Dnia Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:23:03PM -0600, Brad Felmey wrote/napisa?(a) > > > > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > > > > > > hdparm -c1 /dev/hda, or are you running in 16-bit mode on

Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Micah Gorrell wrote: I have it too. Kernel spits a lot of "eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!" and network doesn't work. 2.2 is fine. This behaviour is not persistent, sometimes the eepro100 module is loaded without such an error and works fine then. The eepro100 in questi

[PATCH] make drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.c check request_region's return code (241p9)]

Hi. I apparently forgot to cc the lists on this one. Replies should be cc'ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] also. Thanks. - Forwarded message from Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:37:14 +0100 From: Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

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